^HHkj
H^fM^nEttof lev* ud inth;
.flXL' _ K. ^ ?i_f t .A
alter wraifining ioei,
JPMt itlfrinn ?ftft better hope* ;
wRf These things shall never die.
Th* timid hand stretshsd forth to aid
A brother in his need.
That kindly word In griefs dark honr
That proves the friend indeed;
The plea of meroy softly breathed
When justice threaten* nigh.
The sorrow of a contrite heart;
These things shall never die.
The mnnory of a olasping hand,
The pi eflsure o( a kiss,
And all the trifles, sweet and frail.
That make up love's first bliss ;
If with a firm, unchanging faith.
And holy trust and high,
Those hands have clolped, those lips have
St,
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded as it fell,
The chilling want of sympathy
We feel, but never tell,
The hard repulse that chills the heart
Whose hopes were bounding high ;
In an unfading record kept.
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every band
Must find some work to do |
Lose not a chance to waken love.
Be firm, and just, and true ;
80 shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel volets say to thee:
These thing* shall never die.
letter Prom Hon B. F- Berry.
7b the Editor* of the Columbia Phoenix:
There is ons important and vital fact
which should bs remembered by those who
: ? - * la: m.. 1
?rw ?viu^ vu *uvr lur n cviitvuviuu. a ho ?
military bill makes it obligatory on the I
convention to provide for unqualified negro t
suffrage in tbe State Conatitutlon. No dla. t
oration ia left with the eonvention, to adopt <
or reject thia odiona feature. Thee are not <
allowed to eatabliah impartialmffrogt, and 1
require property or intelligence in the i
voter, wnetlier white or black. All mnrt t
vote who are twenty-one yeare old, wlirlh- I
or or not they have property, or can read i
and write, or are white or black. This <
fundamental error, thia hlaek " Trojan I
horse," fall of atrife and woe, matt l>e In <
traduced into the 8tate Gonatitntion. There i
ia no help for it, if wa go into a oonven- I
tion. i
If tbe military bill left It discretionary 1
with the eonvention to form aneh a Conetitotion
aa they, in their wisdom, might see <
proper to adopt, then there wonld be no me I
excuse in voting for a eonvention. But
when ortUred and rtqnirrd, in violation of I
all right of self-government, to iaeorporate
so mischievous and degrading a feature In i
their Constitution, it does seem that the i
people of South Carolina, prompted hy the
spirit of liberty, aboulrt ery out, " touch i
not, handle not, tbe unclean thingI" They
roust know that it will be Impoeeible to I
maintaia a Just, wise and permanant republican
form of government where a majority
of tha voters are ignorant, stnpid, demiaavage
paupers They ought to see, too,
that the pewee and quiet of tbe State cannot
be preeerved where there are two an
tagonietie races clothed with equal political
powara, and tbe inferior race superior to it
In numbers They mint come in collision
ID tnetr contest* for power. In two-lnlrda
of the Districts of ftouth Carolina, the nt
groea hara the majority of voters. They
may and will elect their Sheriffs, Clerks,
Oraitjaries and Tax Collectors. They will
send their own members to the Legislature,
and eleet their own Governor and members
of Congress.
If we lived In a monarchy, or were to be
eoatinned under military rale, then both
raeca might be properly governed and made
to do justice towards eseh other. In a republic,
the people ere the sovereigns, and
they aaost be wise and rirtnona, or their
government will praetiee the most revolting
tyranny and oppression. Look st Mexico,
where they have had a republic fonnd
ed on a stupid, ignorant, mongrel population.
Their Government haa been nothing
bat a succession of bloody revolntiona and
eruel military usurpations. Without the
highest virtue and great intelligence on the
part of the masses of population, it is impossible
for a republic to stand, England
attempted one in 1?40, bnt it was a melancholy
failure, owing to the Ignorance and
vioiou?asas of the masses. France haa tried
the experiment twiee, and after wading
through rivers of blood, had to seek repose
is despotism. In both England and France,
BP UP* U/JIO inoN cnoni wcr? nmu?", mnc
ware thousands distinguished for their vk
toes end talent*; bat the great maetee were
ignorant and uninformed, end were swayed
by their pensions end rices. But bow infinitely
euperiev were thoee meeeee to the
freedoeen of Bowth Ceroltne.
We bare a foretaste of negro legielation,
eseieted by radical cunning, in tlie platform
adapted at their Cberleeten eow vention.?
Before I bey bare been allowed to cast a
rote, or eserele* the first political privilege,
tbey boldly proclaim that property alone,
and not pcreeas, ia to be taxed Remember,
tbia avowal ie publicly made by thoee
who bare no property to be texed. In
other words, the negroes are to pay no taxaa
towarda the support of the Government;
hot all taxes are to be paid by the white
raaal Next, they dealers that their children
neoet be educated at our expense, and
their aged and Infirm parents muet be sap
ported by oel We must rapport, too, their
idle and vieisoe whe become psnpersl
Tho heartj, hale negro men. who noakee
hie hpadrod or two hundred doll are per annum,
and apends It foolishly, moat not be
taxed one rant to edaaete his own children,
or to support hie own father and mother I
They declare, aleo, that the lands most be
divided Into email tracts, smt that It I# not
good policy for l?ue to <rao n large
Wr
^HpRIPin other wwdi, every n*HpHnNiTt
a home. Tl?# viji and
getting that home will be exHtd
hereafter, in the convention ot 1*gBfature.
pit would feelly eerrn, frotn this programme,
that the blaclt raee are to be a
?ort of aristocracy In Soutli Carolina ihey
xre, by their superior numbers, to fifcvethe
reins of Government in tbeir handr, and
sleet all the State and District officer*, to
make ell of our law*, and he exempted
from taxation, like tbe feudal noMe*** of
Prauee, prior to their revolution in 1790.
The white man must cultivate hie lands,
pay the taxea of the Government, and obey
Ihelaeamade by the freedmenl This fa
what the friends of convention are inno
eently preparing fur themselves and posterity
I What worse can a Block llepublican
" Hump Congress " do for us f
But It is said that it is in vain to think
if defeating the call of a convention. This
is very true, whilst so many white persons
?re determined to vote for it. and a portion
if the newspaper pr<as of the State refuse
In publish anything on the otlier tide, if
the white race were United as they ought to
tie, by everj* principle of honor, patriotism
ind interest, they could very eerily vote it
town. Iu the country, remote fmm the inluence
of vile, radical emissaries, the
reedmen know very little at present, and
ttre Ices. They will not go out to register
ind vote, and manv ol tli. m will vote with
heir employers. But this will not be the
snse long. In all probability, the white
tote of the State will bo larger at the enluing
election than the black vote. It will
lot he so in another election.
In the last 8tate Convention, which ns?emhlod
In Columbia, In 1868. there were
lathered together ail the il las'i loos men of
ho State. It wae a body of men onaur-tasred
for their wisdom, virtue and talent*.
Vol one of them ean be a member of the
^reposed convention. They are ail exelud
d by the military hill, and deprived even
if voting for members of the convention.
Hie proposed assemblage will be composed
if negroes, Noithern men, traitors to the
itsts, and a few gallant and honorable
roung men, who may possibly consent to
iceome candidates and be elected, in some
if the upper Districts. It will be a motey,
heteiogenous collection of white, grev
ind black spirits around the political caulIron,
into which is to to thrown the hon>r,
constitutional rights, republican prinei
ilee and departing glory of South Caroina.
To the few young men In that convention,
hero will be something ineffably menu in
tnowing that they have obtained their seats
here by disfranchising and dishonoring
.hose whom they have loved Jand honored
'hrough life. But this disgraceful sacrifice
loee not atop with the convention. Itnmal
tie continued in the (Jnvernment o( the
Hate, and in filling all the offices in the
Hate. Every Judge on the Bench, from
he venerable Chief Juative down to the
fonngeal member of the Judiciary, must
throw aside his gown, and will no longer
tie permitted to administer justice in South
Carolina. All who have eerved in the Legislature,
.or filled the office of Justice of the
Peace, are excluded froin any participation
in the adminiatration of the Government
In the plaee of thoee Judge#, Governors,
Legislators and distinguished men, who are
disfranchised and declared unworthy of
holding office, the negroes are substituted I
It is nat surprising that the radical mem
bers of C rgreea should wish to exclude
from the councils of the nation all representatives
who are worthy of being regarded
as Southern men. They have so
long indulged in vulgar and malignant
abuse of the South, that they would naturally
feel unpleasant in having a true
Southern man listening to their billingsgate.
It la very likely, too, that Mr. 8nmner and
others might not, from old associations and
remembra.iccs, feel exactly eafe in uttering
their calumnies. But that any honorable
and spirited Southern man should content
to vote for such exclusion, is to me moat
passing strange.
South Carolina, and the whole South,
a'illi nnn w otnn e/.tanl n<1 I n/? Ifffii n 11V In at
fall, the constitutional amendment, which
only excludes from office the leading men
of the Southern States, and reduced our
representatfbn in Congress It did not disfranchise
any one or establish negro suffrage.
But now, both these dishonoring
and fatally ruinous principles are established
by the military bill, and the people are
ready to adopt them I What has produced
this seeming craven and cowering spirit f
It is urged that unless we vote for a convention,
establish negro suffrage, and dis
franchise our prominent man, confiscation
will be adopted by Congress A friend said,
the other day, that this ought not to scare
us, for we were all broke and ruined pe
cuniarily. and had nothing left to confiscate.
He thought it was too late in the day to
dishonor ourselves in order to save the remnant
of our property. I think if any one
will read the speech of Horace Greeley, in
Richmond, oh confiscation, he will fee, aa I
have always contended, that there is no
danger en this subject from Congress Mr.
Greeley *ay? that Thaddeue Stevens U the
only prominent member of Congress who
hna ever suggested euch a scheme, and that
he ha* never, with all hi*ability and influenee
been able to'persuabe other* toadopt it.
lie then gpes on io ahow that such a |>o)iey
would not benefit the freedmen, whilst it
would entail ruin and starvation an the
Southern States.
Dut we are told that If we do not adopt
the military bill and vote for a convention,
something worn* will be imposed on the
Sonthern Stales In my opinion, nothing
worse than negro suffrage and a negro government
can be forced npon na. It would
be a thousand timet preferable la remain
under military rule and submit to nil tha
exactions of military authority. The officers
of the army art generally honorable men,
men of oer own race, anil intelligent men.
who hove so mo regard for lh? opinion of
the world and their own reputation. They
are eetlng, too, under the direction of the
President and h'u Cabinet, who are wise and
enlightened statesmen, and will have some
regard for junlee and humanity?whleh the
stupid negro will not have, when hie aolflahnees
ana passions are aroueeo.
There are some who advocate tha voting
for a convention aa a means of controlling
the negro vote. They seem t? forget thai
the convention is bound to establish negro
suffrage, and that no dleeretiem la allowed
on this subject. In my judgment, negro
sotfrnge is the ?e plu? ultra of nil political
and social e?lh. I have, in former letters
shown the fallacy of hoping to control ihl
negro vote in tha fulurs, and will not repeat
4
GREENVILLE. SOUTH <
what I hiTl already eaid on this enhjeet.
In n.l that I have aatd, f hnw that I am
In a large minority at Uiie time aa I ?tt ta
1800, and that I have been censurvd and
abuaed now, aa I waathen, for reflating and
fighting to Ota laat mowont; what I believed i
10 be the Hlin and degradation of the State. I
Mtneriticfl, which are ao fi luhtful to sum*, *
have no terrore for me. I have lived !n <
them all my Hf?i nod grown familiar with ?
them. Indeo?i, I have i grflit respect and I
sincere regard for them in litnesor political
"dtcitement or panic, The/ have generally
firmness and priucitile* which cannot always
he said of majorities* however large lliey
may be.
I will conclude thla artlale with an extract
from a letter received, the other day from a
noble Udy, of South Carolina, whom I never
had the idvnsnre of neelng, or correspond
ence with before. It ?<t the spontaneous
effusion of a spirited and patriotic heart. ?
She rays:
"I believe T speak tlio feeling of at least
every hwios In Sonth Carolina, when I aay
wo heartily endorse your views, nnd each
and every sentiment you express in your
recently*published latter. We pray you to
continue your efforts to save us from such
dishonor and sneh degradation, to which
the pain of twenty violent death* war* pref>
ruble, and may Heaven aid you lo recalling
th* manhood of our State to'a aeuae of
what is due at least their raee."
This is the entire It tier, with the exception
of the address and the name of the
writer. Such patriotic ant spirited sentiments
from one lovely woman fully e'.tnpens-ites
for all the criticism* and abuse
which have been heaped on me.
I now repeat what I have en id in my
former articles. Let every one, not dislrancliised,
go and register Ills name. This lie
must do, if he has any regard for the preservation
of hia life, liberty and property.?
Then let him go-to the election, without
fail, and vote for good men. endorsing on it,
" againtt convention." These are the words
of lit* military bill, and mnst be used instead
of " no convention." Let him influence
others to vote the same ticket, with
the same endorsement. Having done thin,
he will have dieoharged his duty to the
country nod himself, and dona ill he can do
I. .a... a L a * L a QlaSa
IW BO ? C UIC UVUUI VI II oilll-r.
11. F. TERRY. . c
Letter from Ex-Governor Perry. r
We nublifh, tills morning, another letter
from Hon. R? F. Perry, in which hie viewe
of the political eitnalion an?J the doty of
the people of this State are very forcibly
presented. Ilia sentiments, we have no
doubt, find a response in the bosoms of
many South Carolinians; and while they
ma}- disagree with him ns to the wisdom of
the policy he recommends at the coming
election, yvt we believe that nearly all accord
to hltn sincerity, consistency and lion- "J
esty of pnr|>ose. We think, therefore, tlie '
Governor is in error when he speaks of the 1
" abuse " lie has received, for we li?v-? oh-. v
served little or none of that commodity in 1
the'crilicisma or comment* of the press of c
this State on his letters. c
With tha writer, we wish to see the white "
people of this Slate thoroughly united, for I
we believe that, so united, by voting for a I
convention, tbsy will be enabled to control '
its organisation. That being done, the I
framing of the new constitution, by the best *
available and quaiiAed men we can select, '
will be the mod important work. If they <
should fail to frame one acceptable to the t
dominant party in Congress, the people of
South Carolina will at least have done their '
duty, by complying with the requisitions I
of the law# in nil their forms; and then, 1
should they be a'ill excluded, they would <
be in no worse?-indeed, In not such a bad? 1
condition as if they were peremptorily to '
refuse the main requisition of the law?the 1
calling of a convention.
While we deplore any movement that <
would be likely to produce division In this
o.A : * ? t. i.: .L i
mitie lib in? coming orueai inrougi which
her people are celled to pass, yet we cheer- <
fully tlv? plaoe to ihe view* *o ably pre
sented by Governor Perry, that the people
may hear beth side#, and aet a# their judg
ment, after mature reflection, may dictate.
[Phcrniir. i
The Truth from an Unexpected Qua>
ter?How the Laboring Men are
Humbugged.
The Aurora (Illinois) Ilerahl, a Radical
sheet, and an advocate of (he eight hour
law, odt more regardful of its party, than
the sueceaa of any movement likely to benefit
the workingmen at tba expense of party
success, attempts to persuade the work*
ingmen of Illinois that the " disproportion
now existing between capital and labor, is
but the result of a cause." A cause t Of
eoursc there moat be a cause: but what
cause! Hear this Radical sheet, which
says:
"That oause is fonnd In enormously high
protective tariffs, in usurious rates of interact,
and in the dangerous polities! power
acquired by the oonceotration of wealth
in the hands of monoplieta and its unscru
piilous employment in influencing legislation.
Tne attempt to reform by merely attacking
the effeels without first removing
the cause, is ae if a boat's crew should attempt
to bnil out their boat without first
stopping the yawning leak through which
the water flows in."
No truer words then the above weraever
ottered by a public journal. In trying to
save its party, and the support of the workingmen
to its party, the Lieraid makes the
above acknowledgment. It is the most
complete vindication of the democratic the
ory for conducting the government that we
have aver seen from an opposition Prea*.?
There are crimes known as offences against
nature. Ware, high tariff*, exeaaatv# taxation,
are the Crimea of thie day againatlalor.
Labor baa to pay all, and y?t, atrange
aa It may anpaar, the laboring man support
the party that pnta theae excretive burden#
npon them. It shows bow mankind oan be
humbugged.
?
Wabiiikotow, May 27.?Jobo Q.
Surralt waa brought into tba Criminal
Court to-day, to be tried for murder
and conspiracy to kill President Liooolo.
Ilia b'rotber laaao bad been brought from
[ Texas, and waa in lb# court room. Tba
defence waa ready for trial, but tba Uoi
I ted Statea waa not : the latter preaaotcd
> that they bad used dua diligence, but
aa yet bad beee ouaucceaaful in procur
the attendance of four or five itn\
portent wiloetLta.
. , ,* .4 V?? 'K C -?
I i ?hi i i
t K * * ^ jf ijLJni ,
4 14?^
flT U IJiLIl
CAROLINA. JUNE C. 1867.
9 X.. '
L Republics* Protest Against the
Bubvereive Theories of Jadge Kel- ?
ly And Others. '
We adverted on Saturday last to the re- j
lotion in Northern sentiment, and eren a
imong the Republican party iteel', on ao- r
fonat of* the attempts on the part of some r
>f its leaders to ereate, wliat has been term- j
>d, a negro goyermsnt for the Honth. We H
lave illustrated the evil tendencies of sueh
ittcmpte, and that their only result will he y
he disruption of society. The injury In |
lueh a ease will be common, hot the negro t
ace. In such a contest, owing to their ini- I
inrlty in the whole Soath, must go under r
rhe fact that they are in a numerical ma- f
ority in some few loealities cannot avert n
he fate which th?ir pretended friends, hnt -f
eal enemies, will thus have invoked for c
hem. The colored race, of nil others, are I
nost deeply interested in cultivating rein
Ions of harmony with the white race of
heir own State and neighliorhood. These
inva no feelings of hostility to them. Of I
his they onght by this time to he assured, fc
tnd, If antagonism ensnea, it will be a mat- f
er ol their own seeking, and the respond ..
dlity for which will rcat upon their owe "
lends. C
The Albany Evening Journal, one of the v
nost influential of the .Republican papers, f,
n the State of New York, and in fact In the ^
lonntry, has taken distinct ground against
he " sweeping measures which are sought '
o he inaugurated " at the South. It. knows t
nil well that persistence in these will not I
inly overthrow all aeenrity and right in n
h??e Slates of the South, lint there will .
dlow in their train the destruction of the '
ihert'.es of the commonwealths of tho
ff.,.,1. T, ,i ?._ >i.. o l it?
y can stand hefo-e the country on any anch
dst'orm. It is repugnant to the common
ense of every friend of free institutions, c
ind utterly incompatible with the presorv ' u
tion of Repnbliean self-government. Its n
'lewa ate important In the present juncture. Q
ind doubly ao from the source from which
hey emanate. It claims for the Republican v
larty In the past, more than it is clearly *
milled to In the light of history. But. still 1
peaking from that stand.polnt, its utter- f
ineea ngninst the theories of dominance,
iroclaimed by Judge Kelly and others, are
>n tlint account the mofe significant. We f
ommend its ai tide to the attention cf our i<
cadets: e
[From the Albany Evening Journal.]
How rr Wobkb.?Rumors come to Ms from
he South, of a spirit of arrogance and disatisfactinn
on the part of certain classes of I
lie blacks, which threaten* most serious re- j
nits. Not content witli the allowance of .
he franchise that recognir.ee ?heir political
quality, it is said that they are demanding r
:onces'i?in to thsir numeiical superiority. Il
Nuts, for instance, a telegram of l his morn- v
ng states that the trcedmen of New Or- j
eans are proposing to run Mr. Jordan, a
renlthy and popular negro, for Mayor of ?
lint city. In Richmond, the claim (or pe- I
tuliar social privileges has on several oc- t
adons Involved the hazard of riots. And
m, from different direet'ona, we hear of a
urbulcnt and disordered feeling, that is in
tainfttl contrast to the hnrmony which pro
railed a fevv months since, and which then
promised a peaceable arrangement of the
-ontrorersiea arising from the addition of
in immense hndy of unlettered and recently
nfranchiaed persons to the voting populaion.
If wc look for the cause of these disturbinIt
w tint ltfir?l tit tf ml. TIiiin t\
wtch Announces that a speech of Judge j
Kelly, In New Oi loans, wab followed by an
jut hrenk of ill* negroes, who rioted !
through the streets, took possession of the
noree cars. And forced the conductors to let
them ride beside the whites. At Seltnn, I
last week, a meeting was held, st which |
r>ne of (he speakers read the declaration of j
Wendell Phillips In his Brooklyn oration, ,
that every negro " should hare forty acres
of land under his feet," and it was received i
with enlhnsiAstie cheers. Judge Kelly, it <
is welt known, goes South as the special ;
representative of the ultras, who are not i
satisfied with the positions assumed by Sen- I
ntor Wilson, in hia public addresses, and
who propose to build up a party in all the i
States like that led by llunuicutt in Virginia?a
party committed to ostracism, eon- i
fiscatlon, and a general policy of malignant i
revenge.
Thus we have the first fruits of the new
" Radical " crusade, which Thad, Stevens
made haste to announce, in a letter dedicated
from his sink bed. The negroes, who
would else have been satisfied with the very
liberal advantages guaranteed to them under
the Reconstruction Ac', are taught to
look for and expect mere sweeping measures
in their behalf. They are given an Inflated
and exaggerated Idea of their political consequence,
and their ability to * punish'* the
whites. They are made to believe that par
tltion of property will oeenr. In which the
estates of their former maateis may be divided
among them. And they are told that
it is right for them to aik the highest official
positions?even before they have once
exercised the suffrages of eitlsenship, or
have learoe I the rudimentary les?ona con
ceruing Its responsibilities and dntiea.
The time Is coming when the Republican
?a?*u (mill ka anmivglUil ?a I*Va A Haflnt Ia
I w ** ? ? - ? ?
position in refsrene* lo the Imom thus presented.
And we her# no question whet its
attitude will be. N-ither in the platform
of its eonrantions, nor In the Acta of Congress,
e Urge majority of which was ehoeen
by it, nor throogli any other authorised exponent
of its principles, does itttan-l committed
lo the doctrine of confiscation, or of
negro superiorIty at the South. It is a cruel
deception, end una which will react with
fearful effect, to induoe on the part of the
poor blacka a bcli.-f that these ultra dog
mas will ba carried into effect by the Government.
The Republican party was committed
to the abolition of slavery?and abolition
has been consummated. The Republican
party waa pledged lo secure the clril
equality of the blacks, and their rights be
fore the law?and those ends were ettained
by the organisation of tho Kroedinen'e Bu
rean ana the passage and enforcement of
the Civil Rights BUI. The Republican party
has taken ground for impartial manhood
auffraga?ana under the processes of the
Military Reconstruction Act, this grand advance
ft. tke direction of liberal democracy
will likewise be made. But I he Republioan
party has never declared for confiscation,
nor annonneed itself in favor of a eonfllot
of raaaa, such aa would inevitably follow
upon that mcasura and tke building up of a
negro faction at tha South. When Thad.
Stevens and Judge K*lly and othersoT that
ilk proclaim these doctrines, they do not
EVENTS
peak the sentimenlEa of the Republican or
[anisation, nor have they. any right to be
cgardori^ representative*. In the name
>f the party, in the name of humanity, we
>rot?st agnlnst the promulgation of theories
o Mlterilte of all sound idoie of Governnent,
so incendiary in their effects, and so
nncli calculated to embatrars and delay the
>roccM*s of reconstruction, that had been
o auspiciously entered upon.
Let us keep plstnly before na the duty
re one to the freedmen, of scenrlng them
n the emjoymrnt of all the rights that na
orally appertain to their new condition.?
Jut let na not forget that we are equally
vcpvumvic wu iiiv vuuiurj inu mj me wonu,
of a careful avoidance of every extreme
seneure the! mny Involve anarchy end eonitsion,
or may revive at the Bontb thoee
onfliota wliioh should be forever terminated
>y ite acceptance of the Reconstruction Act
Commendable.?The freed people of
hie town have, for several months past,
een devising means to raise necessary
unds for the establishment of a school
or colored chilldren. Last week, a
ommitee of throe from this claM canassed
the town, asking subscriptions
rom their white fiietids in sufficient 1
mount to buy a lot for the erection of
ho proposed building. In a short time,
he amount required was subscribed.?
t is understock that the Bureau will
ppropriate funds sufficient to erect the
uildiiig, when the site is furnished.
[ Yorkville Enquirer.
Napoleon.?" Burleigh, M the Paris j
orrespondent of the Boston Journal,
rho Is anti-French to an amusing decree,
contradicts the stories of Napole> 1
n's declining health. He says those
rbo expect to find the Einperor a feeble
nd waning man will he disappointed,
le seems to he in the prime of life and
nil vigor of health. He has none of
hat sleepy, drowsy look represented in
ticture*. lli* air is not heavy and sol
d. 11 is face is full of thought, and his
ire. when he chooses to lift Ids head is
rrilliant.
When Mary the wife of William
'rince of Orange was asked what she
ntemled her husband should he if she
tecame Queen, she answered. "All
i.le and authority shall t>e vested in
lim." There is hut one command
rhicli I wi?h him to abey ; and that is
rIutbands, love your wives. For myelf,
I shall follow the injunction, Wives,
te obedient to your husbands in all
hings.
The Orange (Va.) Expositor publish>
a cen?ns cf 180C for Virginia. From
t we find the aggregate number of
Mters in llio whole State a* follows:
While, 124,702 ; black, 78,004. '"These
dntistics," cava the Hiohmotul Dispatch,
' ought to satisfy the negroes that there
s no-more prospect of their carrying
Virginia in the next election than there
a of the while men carrying Massachusetts."
?? **
Fux tx a LtXATfo Asylum.? The editor of
die Newark Advertiser relates the following
r?ractic?l joke, which was played off by a
jolly patient In Dr. Geo. Cook's Lunatic
Asylum, nn'the shoresof Canandaigua Lake:
" Dr. Cook receives many inebriates and
is very successful With them. Sometimes
[>dd incidents occur. One morning, three
years since. Cook entered the breakfast
room where some eonvslescenta from insanity,
and a number of reforming inebriates,
were chatting cosily over their eggs and
coffee, and told them to he m readiness for
visitors,ns a " Teachers' Institute" would be
up from the town during the morning, to
study the treatment of the insane. As the
Doctor left, the room, an inebriate, whom
we will call Smith, said, Now, Cook will
come in here with a long string of peda
goguea and school inarms behind him, and
tell them that wo are perfectly harmless,
and that they will not see any dangerous
Salients. I'll show him to the contrary.'?
mith has been in the service of the North,
west Fur Company, and when the Doctor
came in with his teachers and made the ex
neetpd aa?tiranee of snfetv. Smith, who was
watching from a crevico of hi* door, dashed
out of hi* room clad in complete Indian
eostume, face painted, hair flying, and tomahawk
in hand, giving a tremendous warwhoop
o* he plunged at the head (nan of
the ' Institute.' The soene was indescribable.
Ttie teacheis went flying ont of doora
and window*, Smith chasing them around
the grounds, and the poor Doctor, half mad
witii annoyance and half killed with laughter,
and the break tost table party, who were
in the aecret, all in convulsions of delight
Explanation was impossible. The Doctor
bore hi* sorrows like a man, the ' Institute'
passed resolutions of censure, snd the jolly
Smith rejoiced in the success of his practical
joke, calling it the b>st spree of his life.
But we hope nobody will go to an inebriate
Asylum for the fun of It
Oo or No Go t?We had n hearty laugh
over the following little " squib," the other
day : " Iu the days of the Patriarchs, a woman's
condnet was the Index of her heart
When, for example, the lather of Rebeekah
asked her if she would go with the servant
of Isaac, she replied at ones, ' I will got'?
Had she been a daughter of the nineteenth
century. she wonld have answered, Oh.
pshaw 1?go with him ? Mr. Isaae mnst be
ft a /v ?1st LI? Aff I MA.ls !
8ICR I l#Q wnn inui I wi w?ir?c i wuii v i
And then?aha would hare gone with him I*
? ??? tf
" What news to day I" said New Orleans
merchant to hit friend lately. " What
news!" responded the other?" nothing(
only thing* grow belter?our people ara
getting oq their lega again." ' On tbair
leg* !" aaid the first, " I don't *ee how you
ean make that out." " Why, yea," replied
tha other, " folks that naed to ride ara obliged
to walk now ; is not that getting on
^thsir legs again I"
cis%a
NO. 2. |f||g
^Tkate Very Odd." * A
gentleman was recounting bit trarel*
one evening after dinner to a friend,
ncd commenced in tbia war : * When
I ?? travelling in Russia, I wa* attack
ed, in crossing a forest, by a pack of
twelve wolves, and from my post-chaise
window, 1 fired mv revolver and killed
the first wolf; and, strange to say, his
companions stopped and devoured him,
and then oame on agaia in the fight.
I shot another, and my postillion killed
a third, both of wbieh were devoured,
and so we went on until oaly one wolf remained,
and 1 killed him as we were
entering the town, and I observed that
be was immensely fat. He of cow tee,
bad devoured all his companions/*
" Dear me," said the friend, u that's
veiy odd."
44 Very odd." said the traveler," bat
not near so odd as that which happened
on the following day. I waa oat
shooting antelopes, and fired at one aa
he stood on top of a crag, and, odd to
say, the ball passed through his neck,
and killed another wjiich was standing
on a crag a quarter of a mile further
off."
44 That's very odd," said the friend.
44 Yes ; but the odd part of the story
is to come. The report of my rifle so
alarmed an old be bear which happened
to be up in a tree, that be fell to the
ground, broke bis neck, and died on
the spot."
44 Well," eaid the friend, M upon my
?oul, that's very odd./
"Yes, odd, said the traveler, "but
not so odd as the sequel to my etory.
A thunderstorm came on and 1 sought
refuge in a hollow tree, and, to my horror,
I descended into a neat of young
bears, where I had not been very long
when I heard a strange tapping, tbnoninistakeable
signs of the return of the
she Gear.
She ascended the tree and waa deecendtng
the hollow. With the rapidity of
lightning I seised by ber tail and plunged
my hunting knife into her haunches,
upon which she started upward, dragging
me with her, and as she went
down one side of the tree, 1 escaped
by the other."
4' Now, really, that's very odd," said
the friend,44 for it's the first time in my
lite I ever hea'd of n bear with a tail.
44 Yes," replied th% traveler,44 and it
was the only time I ever met with one,
and that's very odd."
* - m i?
TTatr ta T? s?r TKn mnsnlifw a/ tlui lehta
is fractured sometimes; a writer lays down
the ennon of eatibg as follows:
When you are about to begin eating do
not turn your sleeves up aa though you
were going to Wash your hands.
Do not tread on any one'a feet under the
table.
If you wnut. to give an order to a servant,
do not call hiui "waiter;" reaaember you
are not at a hotel.
Do not hold your plate out, or adopt any
other manoeuvre with the view of being help*
ed first.
Only men who are decidedly ill-bred tako
salt with their ti?gers.
If you want to be In the lateat fashion,
hold your fork in your left hand.
Do not throw your bonea under the table,
or anvwhere else in the room. Plaee
them on the edge of your plate.
If you have a bone In your fingerr, do
not gnaw it too eloeely, aa if you wera a
jackal.
Never eritielae what i? given von, or compare
it to a diah which you have found
much better at some other houae.
Do not wipe your fingers on the table
cloth. The English wipe their fingers and
their knives also on a piece of bread, but
this is not the custom in France.
Finally, the gneel ia enjoined not to sing
at dessert, unless he asked; not to pelt
other guests with pieees of bread ; and if
any one dare to drink ont of a lady's glass,
under nretenee of guessing their thonghta,
to htT* him thrown oat of th* window, m
n impertinent and bad man.
A
IVabniso to Yocao Mr*?We noliea
that bj the laet report* of the Scottish Register
Office the death rate among bachelors
is double what it is among married between
the nges of 86 and 80; between 80 and 86
it remains at the same proportion ; while,
on the whole, taking married and singia in
lump, hnsbands live twenty years longer
than unmated gentlemen. Here is soasething
which we trust onr young men wilt
seriously take to heart, In addition to all
the other areoeietions, romantic and otherwise,
that have clustered about wodloek,
this is the consideration,based on statistics,
Scotch at that, tliat to marry la to live, to
remain single Is to dia before your time.?
Hymen has become Hygiene. What is it
lhatro sweep* off the bachelor*?whether
it is grief, loneliness, want of ears, or that
destructive officer, general decline, we are
not informed. N-r le it materiel, for to
live aa a husband is better than to expire
any way as a beche'or. We trust therefore
that our ingenious young men who am
having regard to good habits, to gymnastics
and to other m>-t' <"a of prolonging their
days, will now turn their attention (they
probably never thought of it before!) to
matrimony, the best of all lifo-preesrver*.*
Thb New Orleans Picayune saye:
We learn that the party of Kantuckians
and Misaouriana, who Mi tbi* city
about the middle of February, on the
bark Elisabeth, for Vcnesuela, arrivid
out safely, and were well received.?
They had an interview with the Governor,
and found their grant of land
confirmed* Letters from members of
the party speak in gloning terms oj
climate and produclioo\ they found
the eenoritas particularly charming.